2024–25 EHF Champions League

This article is about the men's competition. For the women's competition, see 2024–25 Women's EHF Champions League.

EHF Champions League

2024–25
Tournament information
Sport	Handball
Dates	11 September 2024–15 June 2025
Teams	16
Website	ehfcl.com
Tournament statistics
Matches played	80
Goals scored	4775 (59.69 per match)
Attendance	377,501 (4,719 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Mario Šoštarič (72 goals)

The 2024–25 EHF Champions League is the 65th edition of Europe's premier club handball tournament, running from 11 September 2024 to 15 June 2025.

Format

The tournament will run using the same format as the previous three seasons. The competition begins with a group stage featuring sixteen teams divided into two groups. Matches are played in a double round-robin system with home-and-away fixtures, fourteen in total for each team. In Groups A and B, the top two teams automatically qualify for the quarter-finals, with teams ranked 3rd to 6th entering the playoff round.

The knockout stage includes four rounds: the playoffs, quarter-finals, and a final-four tournament comprising two semifinals and the final. In the playoffs, eight teams are paired against each other in two-legged home-and-away matches (third-placed in group A plays sixth-placed group B; fourth-placed group A plays fifth-placed group B, etc.). The four aggregate winners of the playoffs advance to the quarterfinals, joining the top-two teams of Groups A and B. The eight quarterfinalist teams are paired against each other in two-legged home-and-away matches, with the four aggregate winners qualifying to the final-four tournament.

In the final four tournament, the semifinals and the final are played as single matches at a pre-selected host venue.

Rankings

Ten of the sixteen teams competing in the group stage will be determined through the EHF association ranking for the 2024–25 season, based on the results of the three previous seasons. The remaining six places will be awarded as wildcards.

• Associations ranked 1–9 have their league champion qualify for the Group Stage and can apply their league runner-up for a wildcard.
• The best-ranked association in the EHF European League can have its league champion and runner-up qualify for the Group Stage, but cannot apply for a wildcard.
• Associations ranked outside the top nine can only have their league champion apply for a wildcard.

Rank	Association	Average points	Teams
1	Spain	217,00	1
2	Germany	170.00	2
3	Poland	156.67
4	France	140.33
5	Denmark	137.00
6	Hungary	124.33
7	Belarus[1]	69.50	0
8	Portugal	61.67	1

Rank	Association	Average points	Teams
9	Norway	57.00	1
10	Ukraine	57.00	0
11	Romania	56.50	1
12	Slovenia	52.00	0
13	North Macedonia	50.33	1
14	Croatia	44.00
15	36 associations	0.00	0

Teams

The first nine teams were revealed on 7 June 2024. The teams who applied for a wildcard were announced on 13 June 2024. On 21 June, the final list was announced.

Aalborg Håndbold (1st)	Paris Saint-Germain (1st)	Barcelona (1st)	SC Magdeburg (1st)
Füchse Berlin (2nd)	Telekom Veszprém (1st)	Kolstad Håndball (1st)	Orlen Wisła Płock (1st)
Sporting CP (1st)	RK Zagreb (1st)WC	HBC Nantes (2nd)WC	SC Pick Szeged (2nd)WC
RK Eurofarm Pelister (1st)WC	Industria Kielce (2nd)WC	CS Dinamo București (1st)WC	Fredericia HK (2nd)WC

Rejected upgrades

CD Bidasoa Irun (2nd)	Elverum Håndball (2nd)	FC Porto (2nd)
Kadetten Schaffhausen (1st)	HT Tatran Prešov (1st)

Draw

The draw was held on 27 June 2024.

Group stage

Zagreb

Aalborg

Fredericia

PSG

Nantes

Füchse

Magdeburg

Szeged

Veszprém

Kolstad

Sporting

Kielce

Płock

Pelister

Dinamo

Barcelona

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Location of teams of the 2024–25 EHF Champions League group stage.
Red: Group A; Blue: Group B.

Main article: 2024–25 EHF Champions League group stage

The 16 teams were drawn into two groups of eight. Teams from the same national association could not be drawn into the same group.

In the group stage, teams were ranked according to points (2 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss). After completion of the group stage, if two or more teams have scored the same number of points, the ranking will be determined as follows:

1. Highest number of points in matches between the teams directly involved;
2. Superior goal difference in matches between the teams directly involved;
3. Highest number of goals scored in matches between the teams directly involved;
4. Superior goal difference in all matches of the group;
5. Highest number of plus goals in all matches of the group;
6. Drawing of Lots

A total of 11 national associations will be represented in the group stage, with the only difference being that Romania replace Slovenia. Fredericia HK return for the first time in 40 years. Sporting CP come back after five years.

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		VES	PAR	SPO	BER	BUC	PEL	PLO	FRE
1	Telekom Veszprém (T)	10	9	0	1	333	284	+49	18	Quarterfinals		—	41–28	20 Feb	6 Mar	36–24	33–26	30–26	34–32
2	Paris Saint-Germain (T)	10	7	0	3	328	330	−2	14			27 Feb	—	30–28	34–37	35–32	31–29	13 Feb	38–30
3	Sporting CP (T)	10	6	1	3	331	284	+47	13	Playoffs		39–30	39–28	—	35–33	34–25	13 Feb	34–29	26 Feb
4	Füchse Berlin	10	6	0	4	334	318	+16	12			31–32	38–40	33–32	—	38–29	27 Feb	25–24	13 Feb
5	CS Dinamo București	10	5	0	5	313	322	−9	10			13 Feb	33–40	33–29	38–31	—	34–25	26 Feb	37–28
6	RK Eurofarm Pelister	10	2	2	6	242	278	−36	6			23–30	6 Mar	24–24	22–30	20 Feb	—	21–18	29–29
7	Orlen Wisła Płock	10	2	0	8	251	256	−5	4			24–27	23–24	6 Mar	20 Feb	26–28	26–18	—	30–21
8	Fredericia HK	10	1	1	8	273	333	−60	3			31–40	19 Feb	19–37	32–38	6 Mar	23–25	28–25	—

Updated to match(es) played on 5 December 2024. Source: EHF
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers
(T) Qualified, but not yet for the particular phase indicated

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		BAR	NAN	AAL	SZE	KIE	MAG	KOL	ZAG
1	Barça (T)	10	8	1	1	324	289	+35	17	Quarterfinals		—	36–30	35–27	31–30	20 Feb	32–26	5 Mar	38–30
2	HBC Nantes	10	6	1	3	309	292	+17	13			31–31	—	5 Mar	19 Feb	23–20	29–28	44–27	32–29
3	Aalborg Håndbold	10	6	1	3	305	295	+10	13	Playoffs		12 Feb	38–31	—	29–28	34–26	33–33	30–28	26 Feb
4	OTP Bank - Pick Szeged	10	6	0	4	313	303	+10	12			27 Feb	33–32	30–32	—	28–27	31–29	27–29	12 Feb
5	Industria Kielce	10	4	0	6	281	298	−17	8			28–32	26 Feb	28–35	31–35	—	12 Feb	31–30	30–23
6	SC Magdeburg	10	3	1	6	285	278	+7	7			28–23	28–32	19 Feb	5 Mar	26–27	—	33–25	36–24
7	Kolstad Håndball	10	3	0	7	288	318	−30	6			30–35	12 Feb	25–24	33–36	32–33	27 Feb	—	29–25
8	RK Zagreb	10	2	0	8	265	297	−32	4			29–31	22–25	31–23	30–35	5 Mar	22–18	19 Feb	—

Updated to match(es) played on 5 December 2024. Source: EHF
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers
(T) Qualified, but not yet for the particular phase indicated

Knockout stage

Playoffs

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
B6	M1	A3	26–27 Mar	2–3 Apr
A6	M2	B3	26–27 Mar	2–3 Apr
B5	M3	A4	26–27 Mar	2–3 Apr
A5	M4	B4	26–27 Mar	2–3 Apr

Quarterfinals

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
M4	–	A1	23–24 Apr	30 Apr – 1 May
M3	–	B1	23–24 Apr	30 Apr – 1 May
M2	–	A2	23–24 Apr	30 Apr – 1 May
M1	–	B2	23–24 Apr	30 Apr – 1 May

Final four

The final four will held at the Lanxess Arena, Cologne, Germany on 14 and 15 June 2025.

	Semi-finals				Final
	14 June
					15 June
	14 June
					Third place
					15 June

Top goalscorers

As of 28 November 2024

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Mathias Gidsel	Füchse Berlin	60
	Mario Šoštarič	OTP Bank - Pick Szeged
	Kamil Syprzak	Paris Saint-Germain
4	Martim Costa	Sporting CP	55
5	Lasse Andersson	Füchse Berlin	54
	Filip Kuzmanovski	RK Eurofarm Pelister
7	Nedim Remili	Telekom Veszprém	52
8	Aymeric Minne	HBC Nantes	48
9	Francisco Costa	Sporting CP	47
10	Luka Lovre Klarica	RK Zagreb	45

See also

• 2024–25 EHF European League
• 2024–25 EHF European Cup
• 2024–25 Women's EHF Champions League
• 2024–25 Women's EHF European League
• 2024–25 Women's EHF European Cup

External links

• Official website